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PetersCreek

PetersCreek

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The wife works on Saturdays, so I'm on my own to either get into or out of trouble. The shutterbug bit me so I made the short drive to the trail at Thunderbird Falls. I'm sooooo out of shape and the sight of this middle-aged, overweight guy huffing and puffing his way down the trail with a big camera bag and tripod got a few odd looks. But...it was a fun walk and I came away with a few good images...

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Now if only I'd had time to sit there with a cigar...
 
Keeeerist Andrew. it is 3 AM and you're playing with photoshop. You gonna fall into that nerd catagory if you're not careful :p

Nice job on the pic though.



moki said:
I cleaned it up a tad in Photoshop:
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AVB said:
Keeeerist Andrew. it is 3 AM and you're playing with photoshop. You gonna fall into that nerd catagory if you're not careful :p

Nice job on the pic though.
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If it's any consolation, I was playing poker (won $350 in a tourney) and smokin' a stogie at the time. No? Yeah... yer right. :)
 
wow! it's like a dream world, i imagine that's what the earth looked like when it was young. no i'm not smoking pot, but i would if i was there! :p
 
moki said:
I like the choice of a slower shutter speed for the picture; nice job.

I cleaned it up a tad in Photoshop:

http://people.ambrosiasw.com/~andrew/cigar...rdFalls_web.jpg

You won't see the difference unless you look at it side by side with the original (because the original is quite good); there is more contrast, color balance is a tad more natural, and the image is a big sharper.
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Thanks for the critique, Moki. If I'd known there was another shutter fiend in the forum, I'd have included the exif info...Canon 20D, 18mm, 1/10s @ f/16, ISO 100.

I spent a fair bit of time in post-production on this image. The bright overcast lighting and the heavy canopy made for a challenging exposure. I wound up metering the falls to preserve the highlight details, which threw the rocks on the left into deep shadow. Paint Shop Pro's fill flash filter and additional histogram tweaking of selected areas brought those details back from black.

This image was reduced to about 18% the size of the original and I didn't tweak it a great deal for display on the web. The color balance may be off due to a difference in monitors. It looked okay on mine...and that was after I brought the saturation up a bit in response to someone else's critique. I really need to get that monitor calibration kit I was looking at yesterday...but I want to upgrade to CS2 first.

The contrast and sharpness were tweaked on the original but I only performed a mild unsharp mask before reduction and none after. I'll have to go back and play with it a bit more.
 
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